Shakespearean feast will leave theater-goers as well-fed as Falstaff

05:02 PM, February 21, 2013 |

There’ll be no less than six productions of various Shakespeare plays in the Greenville area between now and late summer.

Leading off the Bard brigade is North Greenville University’s “The Tempest,” opening this weekend for six performances through March 2.

The Warehouse Theatre is staging the ever-popular “Romeo and Juliet,” beginning March 22 for 13 shows.

Furman University, meanwhile, will bring “The Winter’s Tale” to the Playhouse stage on April 10 for nine performances through April 20.

Bob Jones University, for its part, will follow up its taut and dark “Richard III,” seen last November, with the equally bloody “Macbeth,” opening May 1.

John Fagan, producing director of the Upstate Shakespeare Festival, will celebrate his 15-year association with the outdoor event by directing two biggies of the Shakespearean repertoire: “Hamlet,” opening Memorial Day weekend, and “The Comedy of Errors,” debuting the first weekend of August.

This Greenville-area Shakespearean feast should leave theater-goers as well-fed as Falstaff.